Your Network is Your Net Worth

We are pleased to share the recap from our January Women’s Forum virtual program: YOUR NETWORK IS YOUR NET WORTH. We’re grateful to our speaker Nicole Vasquez, Founder of MBD-Partners, for illuminating why a strong, intentional network is one of the most valuable assets you will ever build.

Understanding the value of your network is the first step. The next step is learning how to activate it. Building a system to leverage your network can determine your access to opportunity, your influence in key rooms, and your ability to turn connections into meaningful resources, collaborations, and produce valuable outcomes aligned with your goals.

Nicole’s program is packed with inspiration and easy to implement actions to strengthen your networking results. Here is the replay.

KEY PROGRAM TAKEAWAY’S

Nicole kicked off the program by sharing a short story about a senior executive who had a powerful network but no clear plan to use it. After implementing a simple operating system, the executive successfully turned existing relationships into introductions, stronger relationships, and new business opportunities.

Nicole’s proprietary 5-part Networking Operating System includes:

1. Goals:
   • Clarify what is the purpose and desired outcome from your networking.
2. Positioning
   • Know why people say yes to you: who you are, who you help, and what your unique value is.
3. CRM
   • Research who is already in your network.
4. Community & Events
   • Be more intentional in your networking, curating an experience or environment that attracts the right people.
5. Metrics
   • Measure your efforts, evaluate progress toward your goals, and make your efforts sustainable.

OUR SPEAKER

Nicole Vasquez, Founder, MBD-Partners

Nicole Vasquez manages networking for busy executives and their companies. Through MBD-Partners she implements and runs her Networking OS™ – a human+AI system that maps your network, finds hidden opportunities, and shows you exactly who to engage next. She replaces random networking with strategic private events and low-lift, high-impact communities that attract the right people and grow your business.

For 20 years, Nicole has served as a trusted connector and community builder for top leaders in technology, finance, real estate, hospitality, and innovation, designing the environments where executives want to be, knowing they’ll meet people who may be transformative for their companies and careers. This unique superpower has been the backbone of her previous three companies, all at the intersection of community and technology, and all of which were acquired.

With this unique expertise, Nicole also advises companies building AI and relationship-driven technology to help their teams understand the nuances of trust, credibility, networking, and human connection.

Nicole is the top expert on how AI is changing the way we build professional relationships and how to navigate them. Her Future of Networking newsletter gives tips, frameworks, and strategies to help you turn your network into your most valuable asset.

She is also a sought-after speaker, moderator, media contributor, and workshop facilitator on the intersection of AI, trust, and human connection.

Want to continue learning?

Subscribe to Nicole’s Future of Networking newsletter, and connect with her on LinkedIn.

At MBD Partners, Nicole and her world-class Connection Architects replace random networking with measurable business growth through systems, hosting private executive events and community, and the training & development of your professional advisors & salespeople. Reach out to Nicole directly to learn how top-performing executives and teams are leveraging relationships to quantum leap business forward.